My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Never let a crisis go to waste

History is a relay of revolutions.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.